Abstract
This article takes a sustained look at Iqbal’s intellectual roots in the conceptual
paradigm and poetic narrative of Islamic Spirituality or Sufism and navigates the
subject through the perceptive remark of Prof. A. J. Arberry, that,“Poets are the
unofficial legislators of mankind”, to investigate Iqbal’s manifold relationship
with Sufism and to show that, through the poetic and metaphysical paradigm of
Sufism, he had played a prominent, in some instances indeed a leading part, in
that most exciting drama of modem times, the revolt against internal corruption,
and against external domination, intellectual as well as political. The article
argues that for Iqbal, Sufism was a spiritual vocation and a system of repair.
Conflicting views about Iqbal’s Sufi credentials and his normative relationship
with Sufi thought and praxis, as well as Sufi metaphysics and poetics have also
been examined.
M.Sohail Umer . (2016) اقبال, تصور اور عصر حاضر , Mayar , Volume 15-16, Issue 2.
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